Film and History Symposium with Professor Robert Rosenstone
Sun 10th October 2010 10:00 to 16:00
The Boardroom, Gateway Building
Robert Rosenstone, Ian Christie, Alun Munslow, and others
The focus of this one-day symposium is the role of film as a medium of historical analysis and historiographic critique, a subject that has been considered at length by writers such as Robert Rosenstone, Hayden White, Thomas Elsaesser and Natalie Zemon Davis. It will feature several presentations by leading and emerging scholars in the fields of film studies and history, and will be centrally concerned with the key work of Robert Rosenstone, who will be a visiting professor at St Andrews during the month of October. The event is free and open to the public.
Direct and challenging, Robert Rosenstone's History on Film / Film on History calls for a new concept of history as vision and for a new historiography shaped by the poetics of film.
Dedicated to challenging traditional concepts of historical writing, Robert Rosenstone has created a path-finding body of scholarship and has inspired a range of new approaches to the historical film. In this symposium leading and emerging scholars engage with Robert Rosenstone on the ways films make meaning out of the ‘traces left to us from that vanished world'.
Programme
Robert Burgoyne: Introduction and Opening Remarks
Robert Rosenstone: Opening Reflections on Historical Writing and Historical Film
Alun Munslow: Film and the Future of Historical Expression
Bettina Bildhauer: Wreath and Clock: Time and History in Films about the Middle Ages
Debra Ramsay: History in the Making-Of/The Making-Of as History
Lunch
Ian Christie: Seeing the Past: Film and Phantasmagoric Space
Jennifer Smyth: The Historical Image and the Contested Frame in Fred Zinnemann's Julia
Guy Westwell: In Country: Mapping the Iraq War in Contemporary US Cinema
Robert Rosenstone: Responses to the Panel and Closing Remarks
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